Latest / Crime and Horror / SUPER RARE event occurs at sea The Hannah Upp story
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- 0:00Speaker 1: If you were to stop this video right now and
- 0:02Speaker 1: just google the name Hannah Up, who is the focus
- 0:05Speaker 1: of today's story, it would bring up a list of
- 0:08Speaker 1: articles about her very strange disappearance, and all of them
- 0:12Speaker 1: would start with the partial explanation for what caused all
- 0:17Speaker 1: of this craziness to happen.
- 0:18Speaker 2: But what I'm going to do is basically the opposite.
- 0:21Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you the craziness of what occurred
- 0:24Speaker 1: from two thousand and eight all the way up until today,
- 0:27Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and then I'm going to reveal the partial
- 0:31Speaker 1: explanation that many people believe is behind the disappearance. Not
- 0:36Speaker 1: only does that make for a more compelling story just
- 0:39Speaker 1: purely from an entertainment perspective, but it also allows you,
- 0:43Speaker 1: the viewer, to have an unbiased view of the events
- 0:46Speaker 1: that happen, so that when I do make this reveal,
- 0:49Speaker 1: you can be the judge if that is sufficient to
- 0:52Speaker 1: explain away what ultimately happened to Hannah Up. But before
- 0:56Speaker 1: we get into today's story, if you're a fan of
- 0:58Speaker 1: the strange, dark, mysterious delivered in story format, then you've
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- 1:24Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's story. Around midday on
- 1:35Speaker 1: September sixteenth, two thousand and eight, the captain of the
- 1:38Speaker 1: Staten Island Ferry in New York City was looking out
- 1:41Speaker 1: at the water just south of Manhattan, and he noticed
- 1:44Speaker 1: something bobbing in the water, and he said that.
- 1:47Speaker 2: It just didn't look right. He was drawn to it.
- 1:49Speaker 1: It was pretty far away, but he knew that there
- 1:52Speaker 1: was just something off about it. Couldn't tell if it
- 1:54Speaker 1: was a person or debris, but either way, he sent
- 1:57Speaker 1: two of his deckhands over to have a look. So
- 1:58Speaker 1: they hopped in a skiff drove over, and very quickly
- 2:01Speaker 1: they saw that it was actually a woman and her
- 2:03Speaker 1: face was in the water. So as soon as they
- 2:05Speaker 1: pulled up alongside her, the first thing they did is
- 2:07Speaker 1: grabbed her head and kind of pulled it out of
- 2:09Speaker 1: the water, and to their surprise, she gasped for air.
- 2:13Speaker 2: They pulled her up.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Into the skiff. She had on just running shorts in
- 2:16Speaker 1: the sports bra. She had a very bad sunburn on
- 2:19Speaker 1: one side of her body. She was hypothermic, she was dehydrated,
- 2:23Speaker 1: and she looked like she had been in the water
- 2:24Speaker 1: for a very long time. They'd bring her back to
- 2:27Speaker 1: the ferry. They wrap her up in a blanket and
- 2:29Speaker 1: they call nine one one and an ambulance is immediately
- 2:31Speaker 1: sent out to go get her. As they're waiting for
- 2:33Speaker 1: the ambulance, she starts to speak, I was just out
- 2:35Speaker 1: for a run. I went running just a couple hours ago.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Why am I here? They chalked it up to her
- 2:40Speaker 1: being in shock, and based on her attire, you know,
- 2:43Speaker 1: she had running shorts and the sports forra on.
- 2:45Speaker 2: They're thinking, Okay, you know, I don't know how.
- 2:47Speaker 1: She wound up in the water, but it seems like
- 2:49Speaker 1: she went running, fell in the water somehow, and thank goodness,
- 2:52Speaker 1: we found her.
- 2:53Speaker 2: She gets in the ambulance.
- 2:54Speaker 1: They'd bring her to the hospital and after the initial
- 2:56Speaker 1: treatment is done and she's stable and laying in bed
- 2:59Speaker 1: and being treated for hypothermia and for this bad sunburn.
- 3:02Speaker 1: She starts saying to nurses and doctors, she had just
- 3:05Speaker 1: gone running, like a couple hours ago.
- 3:08Speaker 2: How did I get here? Why was I in the water,
- 3:10Speaker 2: And they didn't know either.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Finally, when she was able to confirm that she was
- 3:13Speaker 1: in fact Hannah Up, and they got in touch with
- 3:16Speaker 1: her family, who also confirmed that this girl sitting in
- 3:19Speaker 1: the hospital bed is in fact Hannah Up. Investigators were
- 3:22Speaker 1: baffled because Hannah Up had been missing for three weeks,
- 3:26Speaker 1: not one day. When they said this to Hannah, she
- 3:29Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. At first, everyone was okay with Hannah
- 3:33Speaker 1: not being able to remember because she just went through
- 3:35Speaker 1: something traumatic. We'll give her a couple of days and
- 3:38Speaker 1: then we'll reapproach the subject. But as time went on,
- 3:41Speaker 1: it became clear that Hannah had absolutely no clue what
- 3:45Speaker 1: happened over a three week period that she had been missing.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Three weeks before she was.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Found, she had left her apartment in New York City
- 3:53Speaker 1: to go for a run. This was the day before
- 3:56Speaker 1: she was set to start a new school year at
- 3:58Speaker 1: her school in Harlem. Anna did not return to her
- 4:01Speaker 1: apartment that night. Her roommates actually didn't think much of it.
- 4:04Speaker 1: From what I can tell, the roommates were not particularly
- 4:07Speaker 1: close and it wasn't unusual for them to kind of
- 4:10Speaker 1: have limited interaction. Four days would go by before Hannah's
- 4:14Speaker 1: roommates would notice that she still hasn't come back. So
- 4:17Speaker 1: the first thing they did is they went into her
- 4:19Speaker 1: bedroom inside of the apartment, and they quickly were able
- 4:22Speaker 1: to find that her passport was in there, her wallet
- 4:25Speaker 1: with her cash, bank cards, her id, basically all of
- 4:29Speaker 1: the most important items that you would carry with you
- 4:31Speaker 1: anywhere you went were sitting in her room. At this point,
- 4:35Speaker 1: they called the police and a massive, massive search is
- 4:38Speaker 1: ignited for this woman. Hannah was beloved not only by
- 4:41Speaker 1: her family, but everywhere she went. Her students loved her.
- 4:44Speaker 1: All of her friends would say that Hannah was their
- 4:47Speaker 1: best friend. Everybody she was around loved her. She was
- 4:50Speaker 1: the center of attention, life of the party, and so
- 4:52Speaker 1: when she became a missing person, people came out of
- 4:54Speaker 1: the woodwork to go look for the swoman. They looked everywhere,
- 4:57Speaker 1: and after a week, the family and were starting to
- 5:00Speaker 1: lose hope, and the police would admit that at that
- 5:03Speaker 1: point they were just looking for a body. They assumed
- 5:06Speaker 1: that she had been the victim of some horrible crime.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Her case, her missing person case, had made national headlines
- 5:12Speaker 1: because it didn't really make any sense. There was absolutely
- 5:15Speaker 1: no trace of her. She'd just gone running and then vanished.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Despite living in New York City, where there's cameras everywhere
- 5:21Speaker 1: and witnesses everywhere, they couldn't find any footage of her.
- 5:25Speaker 1: They had no leads, no one came forward. The New
- 5:27Speaker 1: York Times would say it was as if the city
- 5:29Speaker 1: had opened wide and swallowed her whole. Then there was
- 5:33Speaker 1: this huge break in the case because there was an
- 5:35Speaker 1: apple store in Midtown Manhattan that spotted her clearly entering
- 5:39Speaker 1: their store and logging in to one of their computers.
- 5:42Speaker 1: They saw that she logged in with her email address,
- 5:45Speaker 1: but on that computer there was no record of her
- 5:48Speaker 1: sending or receiving any messages. But she did successfully log in,
- 5:52Speaker 1: and oddly enough, one of the people that went to
- 5:55Speaker 1: school with her approached her and was like, Hannah, Hannah,
- 5:59Speaker 1: is that you you know there's a huge search for you?
- 6:03Speaker 2: Is this really you? Hannah on camera looks.
- 6:06Speaker 1: At him and says, no, I'm not Hannah, and she
- 6:08Speaker 1: ups and walks away. Police show up. There's no sign
- 6:12Speaker 1: of Hannah.
- 6:12Speaker 2: She's gone.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Police took the footage and showed it to Hannah's mother
- 6:15Speaker 1: and she recognized her one hundred percent. That is Hannah,
- 6:19Speaker 1: but no one could understand why would she deny being Hannah?
- 6:23Speaker 2: Is she being held hostage?
- 6:24Speaker 1: A day later, she popped up on the security camera
- 6:27Speaker 1: at a Starbucks in Manhattan, But just like the Apple Store,
- 6:30Speaker 1: by the time the report got to the police and
- 6:33Speaker 1: they went to the Starbucks, she was gone. Same thing
- 6:36Speaker 1: happened at a number of Manhattan gyms where she was
- 6:39Speaker 1: apparently going and using their shower and then leaving, and
- 6:42Speaker 1: she somehow was able to get inside the gym, but
- 6:45Speaker 1: she didn't have her gym pass, so they don't know
- 6:47Speaker 1: how she got in. And again every time police showed up,
- 6:50Speaker 1: she'd be gone. And there's lots of other unanswered questions.
- 6:53Speaker 1: How are you able to do anything? You don't have
- 6:55Speaker 1: your license, you don't have your wallet, you don't have bank.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Cards, you don't have a passport.
- 6:59Speaker 1: We don't know where you're sleeping, where you're staying, how
- 7:01Speaker 1: are you eating, what are you doing, where are you
- 7:03Speaker 1: coming from?
- 7:03Speaker 2: What's wrong?
- 7:04Speaker 1: While police were never able to determine where she had
- 7:07Speaker 1: been sleeping at night in those first couple of weeks.
- 7:10Speaker 1: They did determine that at some point towards the end
- 7:12Speaker 1: of this three week period, she decided to leave Manhattan,
- 7:16Speaker 1: and so she jumped into a kayak off of Chelsea Pierre.
- 7:19Speaker 2: And began paddling south.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And at some point we don't know when, she jumped
- 7:23Speaker 1: out of the kayak and began swimming south, And after
- 7:27Speaker 1: several hours of swimming, she wound up at Robin's Reef,
- 7:31Speaker 1: which is this incredibly isolated lighthouse that sits on this tiny,
- 7:35Speaker 1: little rocky island. She managed to pull herself up onto
- 7:38Speaker 1: the island and then sat there on these rocks for
- 7:41Speaker 1: almost twenty four hours. This is where police believe she
- 7:45Speaker 1: got the really bad sunburn. Then some event led to
- 7:48Speaker 1: her getting back in the water and kind of bobbing
- 7:51Speaker 1: and drifting her way all the way back over to
- 7:53Speaker 1: the south side of Manhattan, where she was ultimately spotted
- 7:56Speaker 1: and then rescued by the ferry captain. It took police
- 7:59Speaker 1: in an investigators quite a bit of time to put
- 8:01Speaker 1: together this storyline of what happened to Hannah over those
- 8:05Speaker 1: three weeks, and when they brought it to her and
- 8:07Speaker 1: her family and said, this is what we think happened
- 8:09Speaker 1: to you. She still had no idea how any of
- 8:12Speaker 1: this had happened. She thought she'd gone running, and then
- 8:15Speaker 1: the same day she wound up in the water and
- 8:17Speaker 1: was being rescued. While she was at the hospital, she
- 8:19Speaker 1: had undergone a series of brain imaging tests to try
- 8:23Speaker 1: to see what they could find if there was some
- 8:25Speaker 1: underlying neurological condition that might have caused her to forget
- 8:29Speaker 1: this huge chunk of time, but the tests revealed no
- 8:31Speaker 1: neurological issues. They concluded that the episode was psychological in nature.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Because her case had made national headlines just when she
- 8:39Speaker 1: had gone missing in the first place, and then had
- 8:42Speaker 1: been found under such baffling conditions, not only physically where
- 8:45Speaker 1: she was located, but her inability to remember any of it.
- 8:49Speaker 1: It created even more buzz around the whole story, and
- 8:52Speaker 1: so people began to think she was lying or that
- 8:55Speaker 1: she had staged the whole thing. But she hadn't. She
- 8:58Speaker 1: just didn't understand why it had happened. But as time
- 9:01Speaker 1: went on, people forgot about it, People moved on, and
- 9:04Speaker 1: she was able to more or less go back to
- 9:07Speaker 1: a normal life, even though she herself was very unsettled
- 9:10Speaker 1: at the idea that she had twenty days that she
- 9:13Speaker 1: has no memory of. Fast forward almost exactly five years
- 9:17Speaker 1: to September of twenty thirteen, and now Hannah is living
- 9:20Speaker 1: in Maryland. She is an assistant teacher at a Montessori school,
- 9:24Speaker 1: and Hannah goes missing again. On the day she went missing,
- 9:27Speaker 1: coworkers claimed to have seen her just a couple miles
- 9:30Speaker 1: away from the school, and they assumed.
- 9:31Speaker 2: That she was walking to work.
- 9:33Speaker 1: But she didn't show up for work that day, and
- 9:35Speaker 1: when they tried calling her, she didn't pick up. They
- 9:38Speaker 1: went to her apartment, she wasn't there, and so, just
- 9:40Speaker 1: like five years earlier, they called the police and they
- 9:43Speaker 1: launched a search for Hannah up Early on in the search,
- 9:46Speaker 1: police located Hannah's phone and wallet sitting on a walking
- 9:50Speaker 1: path relatively close to where she worked, but they started
- 9:54Speaker 1: searching the area and they could not find her.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Two days after the.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Search started, Hannah's mother received a phone call from number
- 10:00Speaker 1: she didn't recognize.
- 10:01Speaker 2: When she picked it up, it was her daughter, and
- 10:04Speaker 2: she said, I don't know where I am. I don't
- 10:06Speaker 2: know what's going on, but I'm okay.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Hannah had regained her memory while laying in a creek
- 10:11Speaker 1: bed next to a turned over shopping cart in some
- 10:15Speaker 1: random park in Maryland, not the one where her phone
- 10:18Speaker 1: and wallet were found. She had stood up, had no
- 10:21Speaker 1: idea how she got there, and she flagged down a
- 10:23Speaker 1: stranger and asked.
- 10:25Speaker 2: To use their phone and was able to call.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Her mother, her family, her friends, the police were all
- 10:29Speaker 1: so relieved that she was found and unharmed that, much
- 10:33Speaker 1: like the last one, she ultimately was released from the
- 10:36Speaker 1: hospital Because she wasn't hurt, Anne was able to more
- 10:39Speaker 1: or less move back into a normal life. Except Hannah
- 10:43Speaker 1: at this point felt really guilty. She didn't understand why
- 10:46Speaker 1: this was happening, but she felt really bad about it,
- 10:49Speaker 1: and it was clear to her family and friends that
- 10:51Speaker 1: she really wished she could somehow have a do over,
- 10:55Speaker 1: just start fresh and start a new life where no
- 10:58Speaker 1: one knew her as this person who keeps disappearing. A
- 11:01Speaker 1: year after the Maryland incident, Hannah would move to the
- 11:04Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands, a popular location for Americans that want
- 11:09Speaker 1: to start again or go off the grid. She was
- 11:11Speaker 1: able to land a job teaching at a Montessori school,
- 11:14Speaker 1: teaching three to six year old children, and the director
- 11:17Speaker 1: of the program would say that whenever they brought a
- 11:20Speaker 1: family on a tour of the different classrooms, Hannah's classroom
- 11:23Speaker 1: was always the first one they went to because she
- 11:25Speaker 1: was such a great example of what children would expect
- 11:29Speaker 1: if they came to this Montessori school.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Because Hannah was not just a great teacher, she was
- 11:34Speaker 2: a passionate teacher.
- 11:35Speaker 1: She loved teaching, she loved her students, and she loved
- 11:39Speaker 1: her new life in the Virgin Islands. But in September
- 11:41Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, nine years after her disappearance in New York
- 11:45Speaker 1: and four years after her disappearance in Maryland, Hannah would
- 11:50Speaker 1: go missing for a third time. Now, the lead up
- 11:52Speaker 1: to this disappearance is a little bit unique relative to
- 11:55Speaker 1: the other two. Right before she disappeared, there was a
- 11:58Speaker 1: Category five hurricane barrel down on the Virgin Islands, and
- 12:02Speaker 1: all of Hannah's friends, colleagues, everyone she knew was scrambling
- 12:07Speaker 1: to leave the islands before it hit.
- 12:09Speaker 2: But Hannah was not prepared.
- 12:10Speaker 1: To abandon the island and abandon.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Her house and her school, and so she decides to
- 12:15Speaker 2: stay behind.
- 12:16Speaker 1: In the final few days before all of her friends
- 12:19Speaker 1: and colleagues left the island. They described Hannah as being
- 12:22Speaker 1: in some sort of a trance. She was hard to
- 12:24Speaker 1: get through, too hard to speak to, but she seemed
- 12:27Speaker 1: rather sing songy, like she was in a really good mood,
- 12:31Speaker 1: but very difficult to communicate with. On September fifteenth, just
- 12:34Speaker 1: a few days before the hurricane would actually make landfall,
- 12:37Speaker 1: the few staff members at the Montessori school who had
- 12:40Speaker 1: stayed behind on the island to weather the storm called
- 12:43Speaker 1: a meeting, and Hannah was not present. She was last
- 12:46Speaker 1: seen preparing her Montessori classroom for the imminent impact.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Of the hurricane.
- 12:51Speaker 1: When they went to her apartment, she wasn't there, and
- 12:53Speaker 1: so they went out looking for her. One of her
- 12:55Speaker 1: friends knew that a favorite location of Hannah's was Sapphire Beach,
- 12:59Speaker 1: and when she got there, sure enough, there was Hannah's
- 13:01Speaker 1: car parked in the parking lot, with her purse, passport,
- 13:04Speaker 1: and hundreds of dollars inside of her car. Hannah's clothes
- 13:07Speaker 1: were found down on the beach on a chair neatly folded,
- 13:11Speaker 1: but there was no sign of Hannah anywhere. A desperate
- 13:14Speaker 1: search for Hannah was launched, led by the Coastguard, but
- 13:17Speaker 1: it had to be abandoned after only a couple of
- 13:19Speaker 1: days because the hurricane was barreling down on them, and
- 13:22Speaker 1: to this day she has never been seen or heard
- 13:25Speaker 1: from again. There's a huge part of the story that
- 13:28Speaker 1: I've intentionally left out until right now. After Hannah was
- 13:31Speaker 1: scooped up by the ferry captain and brought to the
- 13:33Speaker 1: hospital after that first disappearance in two thousand and eight,
- 13:36Speaker 1: they ran all those brain tests and they discovered that
- 13:39Speaker 1: there was nothing wrong with her from a neurological standpoint. However,
- 13:43Speaker 1: they did run a series of psychological tests and they
- 13:46Speaker 1: discovered that she had an extremely rare form of amnesia
- 13:51Speaker 1: called disassociative fugue. For those that suffer it, there are
- 13:54Speaker 1: no symptoms leading up to it, and then all of
- 13:57Speaker 1: a sudden, you forget all of your own autobiographical information,
- 14:02Speaker 1: but you don't forget how to live. Someone in a
- 14:05Speaker 1: fugue state could very easily leave their apartment, go to
- 14:09Speaker 1: a store, interact with other people. They just don't understand
- 14:12Speaker 1: who they are. They don't know their name, they don't
- 14:14Speaker 1: know their history, they don't know why they are located
- 14:17Speaker 1: where they are. This can last for a couple of hours,
- 14:20Speaker 1: all the way to years. The most famous example of
- 14:23Speaker 1: disassociative fugue is Jason Bourne from the big blockbuster movies
- 14:28Speaker 1: about the CIA operative, who wakes up and has no
- 14:31Speaker 1: idea who he is or why he is where he is.
- 14:34Speaker 1: He doesn't know the people around him, but he recalls
- 14:37Speaker 1: all of his training and is able to be this
- 14:40Speaker 1: like Ninja, who can fight off bad guys left and right,
- 14:43Speaker 1: but doesn't know who he is now. When Hannah disappeared
- 14:45Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, almost certainly she was in
- 14:47Speaker 1: a fugue state and then was located again and thankfully
- 14:50Speaker 1: she was alive. Five years later, same thing happens in Maryland.
- 14:54Speaker 1: She goes into a fugue state and then two days
- 14:56Speaker 1: later she's found again. Has no idea how she got
- 14:59Speaker 1: where she but there she was now. The tricky part
- 15:02Speaker 1: is in twenty seventeen, when she went missing, it would
- 15:05Speaker 1: be very easy to say that she was in a
- 15:07Speaker 1: fugue state because it had already happened two times before. However,
- 15:11Speaker 1: other people believe that she just wanted to start her
- 15:14Speaker 1: life over again. She hated being known only for her
- 15:18Speaker 1: two disappearances. She wanted to be known as a happy,
- 15:22Speaker 1: loving person, a great teacher, a great friend, and none
- 15:26Speaker 1: of that.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Was possible with her history. And so some.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Say that she staged the last disappearance because she knew
- 15:33Speaker 1: with the hurricane coming in that she would be able
- 15:36Speaker 1: to kind of disappear without a trace and people would
- 15:38Speaker 1: assume that she was probably dead. So I'd love to
- 15:41Speaker 1: get your take on what happened to Hannah Up, specifically
- 15:44Speaker 1: what happened the third time she disappeared. Was this just
- 15:47Speaker 1: another example of her being in a fugue state and
- 15:50Speaker 1: disappearing and will we hear from her again? Or did
- 15:53Speaker 1: she stage all of this to run away from Hannah
- 15:55Speaker 1: Up and start all over again with a brand new identity,
- 15:59Speaker 1: not tethered to the hitty that she really would like
- 16:01Speaker 1: to forget. Let me know what you think in the comments,
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